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[Wyrd of Gawd]

So the correct thing is this, everyone who doesn't have the same views as yourself regarding the existence of god(s), are either cognitively deficient/insane, OR they are uneducated and ignorant. Gotcha.

Isn't that the attitude YOU guys claim to hate when theists have it?

About 50% of Americans are nuts.  Adults who believe in supernatural beings dreamed up by ancient conmen is a good indicator that the believer is nuts.

[ignoramus]

Cath, just substitute unicorn or goblin to understand where we're coming from...

[Thumpalumpacus]

No, only those who have had a decent education in modern science and still chooses to believe in God are cognitively deficient or insane. Otherwise they are simply uneducated, or undereducated, or were bamboozled when told what they had qualified as education befitting a society almost 4 centuries beyond the start of the Age of Enlightenment.

Perhaps you should read up on compartmentalization as a cognitive phenomenon.

I know plenty of intelligent Christians, indeed have some in my family.

[Anomalocaris]

So the correct thing is this, everyone who doesn't have the same views as yourself regarding the existence of god(s), are either cognitively deficient/insane, OR they are uneducated and ignorant. Gotcha.

Isn't that the attitude YOU guys claim to hate when theists have it?

No. We don't threaten you with eternal torment for choosing to be uneducated, or for being cognitively dissonant, Nor would we ever tempt you with idiotic and grotesquely overreaching promises of the most sickeningly infantil rewards that is calculated to appeal to the most foolish expression of your selfishness, while telling you some ultimate unprovable, undisprovable, but most grotesquely and self-servingly contrived supreme being would approve of you if you were to abandon the only worthwhile part of your thinking apparatus and fall for this sham.

[Anomalocaris]

No, only those who have had a decent education in modern science and still chooses to believe in God are cognitively deficient or insane.   Otherwise they are simply uneducated, or undereducated, or were bamboozled when told what they had qualified as education befitting a society almost 4 centuries beyond the start of the Age of Enlightenment.

Perhaps you should read up on compartmentalization as a cognitive phenomenon.

I know plenty of intelligent Christians, indeed have some in my family.

Compartmentalization in this case is but a euphemism for cognitive dissonance.

There is no doubt some of the insane, the cognitively dissonant, and the uneducated are brilliant.   That doesn't mean they are therefore either right where their afflictions have effected them, or their defects less of a defect or less problematic as a defect.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Perhaps you should read up on compartmentalization as a cognitive phenomenon.

I know plenty of intelligent Christians, indeed have some in my family.

Compartmentalization in this case is but a euphemism for cognitive dissonance.

Of course. But cognitive dissonance is not cognitive deficiency, which is what you wrote.

There is no doubt some of the insane, the cognitively dissonant, and the uneducated are brilliant.   That doesn't mean they are therefore either right where their afflictions have effected them, or their defects less of a defect or less problematic as a defect.

No one was arguing that brilliant people are automatically right, so I'm unsure why you felt the need to make that "point".

As far as "afflictions" and "defect", you're trying to insert via language your views, without supporting them. You haven't shown that religious people are stupid, "cognitively deficient", "afflicted", "defective", or any other pejorative you wish to attach to them based upon your own distaste. Classing an entire swathe of people as "cognitively deficient", "afflicted", "defective" (or any other phrase you wish to use) simply based on their belief-system reveals an understanding of intelligence on your part that is very shallow.

[Catholic_Lady]

There is no doubt some of the insane, the cognitively dissonant, and the uneducated are brilliant.   That doesn't mean they are therefore either right where their afflictions have effected them, or their defects less of a defect or less problematic as a defect.

No one was arguing that brilliant people are automatically right, so I'm unsure why you felt the need to make that "point".

As far as "afflictions" and "defect", you're trying to insert via language your views, without supporting them.  You haven't shown that religious people are stupid, "cognitively deficient", "afflicted", "defective", or any other pejorative you wish to attach to them based upon your own distaste. Classing an entire swathe of people as "cognitively deficient", "afflicted", "defective" (or any other phrase you wish to use) simply based on their belief-system reveals an understanding of intelligence on your part that is very shallow.

Don't forget "insane." 

[Thumpalumpacus]

No one was arguing that brilliant people are automatically right, so I'm unsure why you felt the need to make that "point".

As far as "afflictions" and "defect", you're trying to insert via language your views, without supporting them.  You haven't shown that religious people are stupid, "cognitively deficient", "afflicted", "defective", or any other pejorative you wish to attach to them based upon your own distaste. Classing an entire swathe of people as "cognitively deficient", "afflicted", "defective" (or any other phrase you wish to use) simply based on their belief-system reveals an understanding of intelligence on your part that is very shallow.

Don't forget "insane." 

Well, you are a bit touched ...